Mail ballots trickling back

As of Friday morning, more than 25,000 Coloradans had already cast their votes in this year's general election, according to the Colorado Secretary of State's Office.

Secretary of State Scott Gessler's staff reported that Colorado county clerks — who began sending out mail ballots on Monday to voters opting to vote by mail — had gotten 25,377 ballots back by Friday morning.

That included 684 ballots from Boulder County voters, 1,497 from Weld County voters and 3,899 from Larimer County voters, according to the Secretary of State's Office's tally of those clerks' reports.